Posted in growing challenge, gardens on May 12th, 2008
I think we all start off with great ambition on every new project. Or at least I do. And then sometimes reality comes along and bites me in the ass. So it was with the great dirt moving project of 2008. When we first started the garden project I was taking my Organic Gardening class […]
Posted in farm on May 11th, 2008
Confession time around here. All is not always perfect in paradise. Until this morning, the water here at the (not so) Urban Hennery smelled distinctly like rotten eggs, and had since we moved in. And while it didn’t actually taste bad, the odor was enough to convince you that it did.
It’s something that we knew […]
Posted in growing challenge, gardens, eat local on May 10th, 2008
The fruit trees are blooming, as are the tulips, and spring is definitely here. Finally!
Today was overcast but strangely warm, it finally started to rain just as the sun went down. I finished 90% of the hard work in the veggie garden today. That involved finishing 3 of the last 4 rows to be […]
Posted in personal on May 8th, 2008
Tonight I realize that what’s quickly becoming normal would have seemed extraordinary not that long ago. Mike got caught at work late tonight because one of his crew’s had the street opened and it was a mess. When we lived in the city a night like tonight would have gone like this: I would have […]
Sometimes life gets so busy that it’s easy to miss the little details.
About 5 weeks after we moved Sterling (our 11 year old cat) started peeing in the closest where his litter box was. Not in the box, but on the carpet near it. He hasn’t used a litter box regularly for years, preferring […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
On a lighter note, and in keeping with Denise’s comment, here’s another article from the NY Times. If people can figure out how to farm on vacant lots in New York, Brooklyn and Detroit, I guess there’s just no excuse for the rest of us.
It inspires me to see communities pulling together to grow the […]
Who will tell the people? We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.
I don’t always agree with Thomas Friedman, but I almost always respect what he has […]